Unidentified sitter

A carte-de-visite portrait of an unidentified man kitted out for a day's hunting.

Photographed by Thomas Edge of Preston and Llandudno.

At the time of the 1851 census, Thomas Edge was a 'Dandy loom weaver' in Lancashire's cotton industry. It's the classic tale of Victorian self-betterment that he managed to establish not just one studio in Preston but another in the Welsh resort of Llandudno, where he eventually settled with his wife and children. According to a report in a local paper on his youngest daughter's wedding in 1899, for many years he was the chairman of the Llandudno School Board.